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Cold War History
By Yannick Pincé1 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Paris 75012, France2 Lycée Millet - Rue Bougainville, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin 50130, FranceDr. Yannick Pincé defended his doctoral thesis in 2022 on the subject of the French nuclear ‘consensus’ under the supervision of Professor Frédéric Bozo at University Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris. He teaches history at the Lycée Jean-François Millet in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (France) in a preparatory class for the ‘grandes écoles’: an undergraduate curriculum to prepare the students for France’s top postgraduate institutions (ENS, political sciences, journalism schools and business schools.) He is a specialist in the strategic aspects of military nuclear power, international relations and domestic policy.
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Critical Military Studies
By Dostin Mulopo LakikaPostdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), Wits University and Research Associate at the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS-Recherche), Johannesburg, South AfricaDostin Mulopo Lakika holds an MA and a PhD in Migration and Displacement from the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa). Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at ACMS and a Research Associate at the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS-Recherche). His research areas focus on militarization, violence, and memory; (ir)regular migration and resilience; mental health issues among refugees; and topics related to food, health, and illness. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed academic journals.
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Critical Military Studies
By Siri DriessenJeannette van BrenkNicole Immlera Department of Citizenship and Humanisation of the Public Sector, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlandsb Humanistic Military Chaplaincy, The Netherlands
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Critical Military Studies
By Maria SternSanna Stranda School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Swedenb Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Critical Military Studies
By Katharine HallSenior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Defence Studies
By Deane-Peter BakerNicole TownsendSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales Canberra at ADFA, Canberra, AustraliaDeane-Peter Baker is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, where he is also Director of the Military Ethics Research Lab and Innovation Network (MERLIN).Nicole Townsend is currently completing a PhD in History at UNSW Canberra, where her research focuses on Australian engagement with the Mediterranean and the Middle East during the Second World War. She currently works as a Researcher on the Official Histories of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and she is a Director of the Second World War Research Group, Asia-Pacific.
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Defence Studies
By Ronen YitzhakMiddle Eastern Studies, Western Galilee College, Akko, IsraelProf. Ronen Yitzhak is the Head of the Middle Eastern Studies Division at Western Galilee College, Acre, Israel. His academic interests include: The Modern history of Jordan, Military, Intelligence and the 1948 War. He has published over thirty articles in refereed journals and three books. His book Abdullah al-Tall - Arab Legion Officer: Arab Nationalism and Opposition to the Hashemite Rregime (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012) was published in an Arabic version in Amman in 2016.
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Defence Studies
By James MacHaffieIndependent ScholarJames MacHaffie is the author of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Conflict De-escalation: Trust Building and Interstate Rivalries with Routledge. He holds a doctorate in international relations from the University of Leicester.
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Defence Studies
By Jana WrangeDepartment of Political Science, Lund University, Lund, SwedenJana Wrange is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Her research interests include small state security and defence issues. Her Ph D project concerns international preconditions for Swedish civil defence.
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Defence Studies
By Dalit MilshteinAvishai HenikEviathar H. Ben-ZedeffUri Milsteina Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israelb Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israelc International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israeld Independent researcher, Ramat-Gan, IsraelDr. Dalit Milshtein is a neurocognitive researcher. She received her PhD from the School of Brain Sciences and Cognition at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Her research interests include decision-making, mental manipulation, collective experience, and social dynamics. She previously worked in the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Haifa University and is currently affiliated with the Social Intelligence Group at Humboldt University Berlin.Dr. Avishai Henik is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has over 300 publications and studies attention, emotion and numerical cognition. Dr. Henik has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to continue his cutting-edge research on numerical cognition. In addition, he won a Humboldt Research Award, in recognition of accomplishments in research and teaching, and the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Mentoring Prize 2020, for demonstrated leadership in fostering the careers of neuroscientists.Eviathar H. Ben-Zedeff is a research fellow in the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) in the Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel, and joint-coordinator of the Alfredo Workshops for Defence. He was the editor of the Israeli Defence Forces’ Ma’arachoth professional magazine. He holds a BA degree in History and International Relations from The Hebrew University at Jerusalem and an MA in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on Israeli military history, terrorism-press relations and military- press relations.Dr. Uri Milstein is a philosopher of war, an independent war researcher and an expert in after-action debriefing. He fought in the IDF’s) Israeli Defence Forces (Paratroopers Brigade and the reserves, where he served as a soldier and combat medic on the front lines until the first Lebanon War in 1982. In addition, he served as an investigator and historian of the Israeli Paratroopers Brigade. He authored a four-volume history of IDF paratroopers, as well as a four-volume history of the beginning of the1948 Israeli-Arab war in Hebrew and English. He is currently working on a thorough study of the 1948 Israeli-Arab war and the foundation of the State of Israel that will include thirty books, eleven already published. He has authored scores of papers and books about significant battles in all Israeli wars. He developed and published a security philosophy based on the “principle of survival” in both Hebrew and English. He often publishes detailed military debriefings in the Israeli press.
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Defence Studies
By Hwee-Rhak ParkGraduate School of Politics and Leadership, Kookmin University, Seoul, South KoreaDr. Hwee-rhak Park is a special affairs professor at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea and a visiting professor in the University of the Philippines, Manila, the Philippines. He was reappointed as a professor in March 2023 after retiring from the same university in 2021 due to South Korea’s age limit for professors at 65. Following his retirement, he served as a visiting scholar at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, from September 2021 to July 2022. Dr. Park has a background in political science and has focused his recent research on North Korean nuclear issues. He served as a professor and dean of the Graduate School of Politics and Leadership at Kookmin University from 2009 to 2018. During his time as a visiting scholar at the Fletcher School, he published three articles in international journals in 2022, namely “North Korea’s Nuclear Armament Strategy and Deception” in Defense Studies, “Investigating Nuclear-Armed North Korea’s ‘Strategic’ Challenge and Options for the United States and South Korea” in International Area Studies Review, and “An Investigation into North Korea’s ‘Real’ Nuclear Strategy: A Comparison with Pakistan’s Case” in the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs (this journal). In 2023, Mr. Park published three English articles: “Searching for On-site Nuclear Balance against North Korea” in Comparative Strategy, “The Necessity to Discuss ‘Deterrence Failure’ Regarding North Korea’s Nuclear Threat” in International Studies, and “Compellence and BATNA for the Denuclearization of North Korea” in International Negotiations. These publications demonstrate his continued engagement with and research on North Korean nuclear issues. Dr. Park served in the South Korean army from 1978 to 2009, when he retired as a Colonel after completing careers such as infantry battalion and regiment commanders, policy and planning jobs in the Ministry of National Defense and US-South Korea Combined Forces Command, and a professor at the National Defense University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the Korea Military Academy in 1978. He earned Master’s degrees in International Relations from Yonsei University in 1983 and in Security Strategy from the US National War College, U.S. National Defense University, in 1999. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Gyeong-gi University in Seoul, South Korea in 2008.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Louise HarringtonDepartment of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaDr. Louise Harrington is an Assistant Professor in postcolonial studies and contemporary literatures in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She works primarily on cultural representations of war and ethno-religious-national conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries, specializing in the study of Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and the region of South Asia. Her work is grounded in critical border studies, geocriticism, and spatial literary studies. She is also active in research on peace and conflict resolution in cultural production, and migration and intercultural studies.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Maxim Tvorun-DunnDepartment of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanMaxim Tvorun-Dunn is a cultural economist and media theorist, currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo. Specializing in the postwar rise of postmodernity and neoliberalism within material and visual culture, Maxim has published on varied topics including transmedia storytelling, video games, environmental studies, the global counterculture, and global cinema of the 1960s.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Samir DayalBentley University, USASamir Dayal is Professor of English and Media Studies at Bentley University, Postcolonial and Cultural studies. He is President of the PsyArt Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of the PsyArt Journal. Publications include co-edited books Global Babel and New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity, and the monograph Dream Machine: Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema. As editor of a book series at Other Press, he edited Julia Kristeva's Crisis of the European Subject. Current projects include books on loneliness and World Literature. Recent essays include ‘Artificial Flesh: Rights and New Technologies’ in Literature and ‘Precarity and Planetarity’ in an edited collection.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Marzena Sokołowska-ParyżUniversity of Warsaw, PolandMarzena Sokołowska-Paryż is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War: The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction (2012) and The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry, 1939-1945 (2002). She has co-edited with Martin Löschnigg, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film (2014) and The Enemy in Contemporary Film (2018). She is the author of numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes on the subject matter of war in literature and film.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Emma HamiltonPaul ChojentaUniversity of Newcastle, AustraliaEmma Hamilton is a senior lecturer of history at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research relates understanding representations of history on film, and cultural histories of gender, sexuality, age, and race across time and place. Emma has published two books on the Western film genre: Masculinities in American Western Films (2015) and Unbridling the Western Film Auteur (2018, an edited collection with Dr Alistair Rolls). She also contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning, with a particular focus on widening participation and online education.Paul Chojenta is an associate lecturer in screen and cultural at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research focuses on the role cinema plays in public knowledge of history and culture. He is a current PhD candidate, whose thesis will explore the role of film canons in the discipline of screen studies. He also contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning, with a particular focus on enabling education and student engagement.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Marek ParyżUniversity of Warsaw, PolandMarek Paryż is an associate professor of American literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Andrea HepworthTe Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandAndrea Hepworth, Department of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington–Te Herenga Waka, New Zealand. Her research focuses on post-conflict societies, analysing the lasting impact of traumatic historical events on present-day society. She investigates the marginalisation of specific social groups and their endeavours to secure recognition for their voices and narratives. Her research employs an interdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of history, memory studies, and social movement studies. Her research has been published both in scholarly edited volumes and high-impact academic journals, such as the International Journal of Transitional Justice, the Journal of Contemporary History Journal, the Bulletin of Spanish Studies and the Journal of Genocide Research.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Wiktor GardockiFaculty of Philology, University of Białystok, Białystok, PolandAssistant Professor at the Department of Comparative Research and Editing, Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok. His research focuses on censorship of Polish literature (1945–1990) and the Holocaust.
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Peace Review
By Syed Murtaza MushtaqMujeeb KanthSyed Murtaza Mushtaq is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic & Security Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India. E-mail: syedmurtazaamu@gmail.comMujeeb Kanth is a Doctoral candidate in the department of International Relations at South Asian University, New Delhi.
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Peace Review
By Seifudein AdemInstitute for Advanced Research and Education, Doshisha University, Kyoto, JapanSeifudein Adem is a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Research and Education, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Dr. Adem is also Ali Mazrui’s intellectual biographer and author of Postcolonial Constructivism: Mazrui’s Theory of Intercultural Relations (Palgrave, 2021). E-mail: seifudein@gmail.com
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Peace Review
By Anne Pier Schelte Van Der MeulenAnne Pier Schelte van der Meulen, Protestant Chaplaincy in the Dutch Armed Forces, The Hague, The Netherlands; Protestant Church in the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: a.vandermeulen@glazenkamp.net
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Peace Review
By V.K. KarthikaDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli, IndiaV.K. Karthika teaches English at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli, India. Interested in cultural criticism and philosophy of education, her work focuses on communicative peace and sustainable development goals. karthika.leedsuniversity@gmail.com
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Peace Review
By Sudhakar VaddiSudhakar Vaddi is an Assistant Professor/Korean Studies Division/Centre for East Asian Studies/School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India. He was also a recipient of a prestigious pre-doctoral fellowship from the Academy of Korean Studies. E-mail: sudhajnu@gmail.com
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Peace Review
By Sameer PatilAnkit KumarDr Sameer Patil is Senior Fellow Center for Security Strategy and Technology and Deputy Director ORF Mumbai. E-mail: psameers@gmail.comAnkit Kumar is a research scholar at the Department of International Relations, South Asian University University, New Delhi. E-mail: ptm639@gmail.com
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Peace Review
By Andrej StefanovićMarina Kostić ŠulejićAndrej Stefanović works as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, where he is currently assigned to the Arms Control Department. Previously, from 2019 to 2023, he held the role of disarmament officer at Serbia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva. Before joining the foreign service, he was engaged as a researcher at the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, a think tank based in Belgrade. Andrej also gained valuable experience through internships at the EU Delegation in Serbia and the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in international relations and a Master’s degree in European integration from the University of Belgrade. Additionally, he has authored numerous articles and policy papers addressing areas such as arms control and disarmament, constitutional theory, and European integration. Email: andrejstef89@gmail.comDr. Marina Kostić Šulejić is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Politics and Economics and the Head of the Centre for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament of the Professional Association of Security Sector. The areas of her academic interest are world order in the 21st century, and defense and security policy. Marina has published a dozen research papers dealing with international institutions and world order, strategic and nuclear arms control and non-proliferation, bilateral and regional relations in the Western Balkans, security issues in Serbia and its policy of military neutrality, as well as the EU enlargement policy. She has participated in many national and international conferences, workshops, and educational programs. In 2022, she published a book titled “Strategic Stability in a Multipolar World”. Previously, she published several articles regarding the controversial issues of extending the New START and its possible multilateralization. Email: drkosticmarina@gmail.com
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Peace Review
By Felip DazaFelip Daza is a professor affiliated with the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and the Open University of Catalonia, centers his research on the dynamics of civil resistance and nonviolent action, the concepts of human security and resilience, and the intricate relationship between human rights and business. Of particular interest to Daza is the privatization of warfare, examining its interplay with cybersecurity and the extractive industry. Additionally, he serves as the research director at the Observatory within the Human Rights and Business Observatory in the Mediterranean region. His commitment to the practical application of strategic nonviolence action extends to his role as a member of the board of the International Institute for Nonviolence (Novact), where he has provided consultancy services to International NGOs, social movements and Human Rights Defenders across the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus. E-mail: felip.daza@sciencespo.fr
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Amos C. FoxPolitics and International Relations, University of Reading, Reading, UKAmos C. Fox is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Reading. Additionally, Amos works as an executive with the Irregular Warfare Initiative and he hosts the wildly successful and influential Revolution in Military Affairs podcast.
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Mujeeb KanthSouth Asian University, New DelhiMujeeb Kanth is a doctoral candidate in the Department of International Relations, South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi, India. He can be contacted at checka661@gmail.com
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Thomas Ameyaw-BrobbeyVladimir Antwi-Dansoa Academic Division, Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Accra, Ghanab Academic Affairs, Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Accra, GhanaThomas Ameyaw-Brobbey is a Research Fellow, Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Accra, Ghana. His research interest is interdisciplinary, spanning international relations, security, civil conflicts and wars, human security, domestic governance institutions of developing countries, China-African public relations, and sports politics. He is a current member of the following professional societies: ISA, IPSA, and ASAA. His recent publications have appeared in World Affairs, Journal of International Studies, Africa Review, National Interest, Global Policy, Small Wars and Insurgencies, and Insight on Africa.Vladimir Antwi-Danso is the Dean and Director of Academic Affairs of the Ghana Armed Forces Command & Staff College (GAFCSC), Accra. He is experienced researcher and consultant to many international organizations in the field of International Relations, specializing in International Security, Geo-politics, and Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration.
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Wilder Alejandro Sancheza Second Floor Strategies, Washington, DC, USAb Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, USAWilder Alejandro Sanchez is an analyst who focuses on defense and security, geopolitical, and trade issues across the Western Hemisphere, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. He is president of Second Floor Strategies, a consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He is also a non-resident research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Expediente Abierto. His analyses have appeared in numerous refereed journals, including the SAIS Review of International Affairs, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Defence Studies, the Polar Journal, the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, European Security, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Perspectivas. He has published book chapters on Bolivia’s foreign policy, separatism in Moldova, and Kazakhstan’s economic diversification policies.
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Muhammad Asad LatifIslamia University Bahawalpur, PakistanMuhammad Asad Latif is a research fellow in the department of Islamic studies at Islamia university of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. His areas of interest are theological filmography, media studies, social studies, feminist theology, and Middle Eastern studies. Nowadays, he serves as a supervisor in a private firm, which provides guidelines to beginners in the research field. Muhammad Asad’s goal is to discover specific benefits for humanity, and also uncover those things which are harmful to the human race in modern times.
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Oliver DoddSchool of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UKOliver Dodd is an ESRC sponsored PhD candidate in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Dodd’s current research analyses the origins and development of the Colombian armed conflict (circa 1964) leading to the 2016 peace agreement with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). In particular, Dodd seeks to connect (counter)insurgency theory and practice with political-economic developments. Dodd is also currently serving as a Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ).
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Mushegh GhahriyanVeronika TorosyanAnush Harutyunyana Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Institute for Armenian Studies, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armeniab Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, ArmeniaMushegh Ghahriyan is a research associate at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and Institute of Armenian Studies of the Yerevan State University. In 2016, he defended the thesis ‘The Kurdish Issue in the Internal Policy of Iraq in 1991–2011’ and earned his Ph.D. in History at the Institute of Oriental Studies. M. Ghahriyan’s research interests include the Kurdish issue, the modern history and foreign policies of the Arab countries, foreign policy of Armenia, and Armenian-Arab relationships.Veronika Torosyan is a PhD candidate and junior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies at NAS RA. Research interests: Turkish Studies, Russian Studies, Eurasianism, Post-Soviet Regional Studies.Anush Harutyunyan has a PhD in History, junior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. The framework of scientific interests involves the ethnic and political history of Transcaucasia in XX-XXI centuries. The title of the thesis is: ‘Creation of the People’s and Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and the process of formation of the Azerbaijani ethnos in the 1920-1930s.
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War & Society
By Boris GorelikRussian Academy of Sciences, Institute for African Studies, Moscow, Russian FederationBoris Gorelik lives in Moscow and specialises in the history of cross-cultural encounters and interactions between Russia and South Africa. His books, published in Russia, South Africa and the United Kingdom, include The Past and Current Russian Immigration to South Africa (2007) and ‘An Entirely Different World’: Russian Visitors to the Cape 1797–1870 (2015). His latest book is A Russian on Commando: The Boer War Experiences of Yevgeny Avgustus (2022).
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War & Society
By Tua SandmanDepartment of War Studies, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, SwedenTua Sandman is Associate Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. Her research covers the representation of war; war, memory and society; war as experience; and combat motivation. She has previously published in Critical Military Studies, Journal of War & Culture Studies, Crime, Media, Culture, and in the anthology Advanced Land Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2023).
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War & Society
By Mara KozelskyDepartment of History, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USAMara Kozelsky is Professor of History at the University of South Alabama with numerous publications in Russian and Ukrainian history. Her book Crimea in War and Transformation (Oxford 2019) received honorable mention for 2019 the Marshall Shulman Prize and was a co-winner of the 2022 Book Award for the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
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War & Society
By Tatsuo YamaneGraduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, JapanTatsuo Yamane is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Hiroshima University. His main research interest is war and conflict, and peacebuilding in International Relations. His previous positions include a Special Assistant (Political Affairs) at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki, and Visiting Professor at the School of Social Innovation of Mae Fah Luang University in Thailand.